Belgian premier urges nation to stay united after barbaric attacks

BRUSSELS, March 22 (Reuters) - Belgian Prime Minister
Charles Michel called on Belgians to remain united, said he
would fight to defend democratic values and that his heart went
out to people who has been felled by barbaric attacks.

In a news conference following suicide bomb attacks at
Brussels airport and on a rush-hour metro that killed at least
30 people, Michel said the attacks had shattered the lives of
people going about their daily affairs.

"These are lives that have been shattered, people who were
going about their business, probably in a carefree mood on the
way to work or school and who have been mown down by the most
extreme barbarism," he told a news conference
(Reporting by Barbara Lewis, editing by Alastair Macdonald)